San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-06
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Solomon S Mines.


| take some food with us Ace luIiugly CT
gooPs litter was brOug, mp and that lady
herself assisted out of It; and meanwhile
Foulata, at my request, stored some "bil-
tong" or dried gamg-hcSh together with a
couple ofgOurds Of water in reed basket
Straight in front of US, at a distance of some
fifty PAGES from the backs uf the Colussi.
rose a sheer wall Of rock, eighty feet or
more in height, chat gradually slUpCd up till
II formed the lasr of the lofty snow
wreathed peak, which scared ND into the
air three thousand feet abDy. us. As soon
aS she was clear of her hammock, GagoOl
east one evil grin upon us. and then, lean
ing on a Sick, hObblrd oil toward The she r
face of the rock. We followed her till we
came TO narrow portal sOlidly archcd,
that looked like the opening of a gallery Of
4 mine.
Here GagOOl was waiting for rs, still with
that evil grin upon her hOrri face.
Now, white men from the stars" she
pipcd; great warriors, Incuhu, Bougwan,
and MacumaZ Uhn the wise. are We ready?
Behold, am here 10 do the bidding of my
lord the king, and to show ye the store of
bright stones"
1--WE are ready" | sHid.
Good! guOi! Make strong your hearts to
bear what we shall see. CONTEST thou too,
lnfaduOs, who betrayed thy mastrr?'
lnfafOOS frowncd a. he auswrTrd:
Nay, ! come not, it is not for me to en-.
ter there. But thou GagOOl, curb thy
tongue and beware how thou doalCSt with
my lords. At thy hands will require them
and if a hair of them he hurl, Glgool, be-
thou fifty times a witch, thou shalt di,.
Nearest thou?'
81 hear. lnfadoOS; | know thee, thou
didst ever love biz words; when thou vast
babe remember thou didst threaten thine
own mother. That was but In, other day.
But fear not. fear not I live but to do the
bidding of the king. have done the bid
ding of many kings, lnfadOOS, till in the end
they did mine. Hal ha! | 20 to look upon
their faces once more, and Twala'S, too!
Come Oh, come on, here is the lamp" and
she drew great gOurd full of oil, and fitted
with rush wick, from under her fur clio k.
Art thou coming, Fuuata%" asked
Good in his yilainOuS kitchen Kukuana, in
which he had been improving him elf I'M
der that young lady'S tuition,
Il fear my lord" the girl answered timid.
ly.
''rhpn give me the basket"
Nay, my lord, whittier thou gOest, there
will go also"
The deuce You will!' thought / to my
self; that will be rather awkward if ever
we get out e this"
Without further ado GdgbOi plunged into
the passage. which was vice enough to adj
NIT of two walking abreast, ami quite dark,
we following h-r voice as Size Dipcd to us
10 come on, in some fear and trembling,
which was no. allayed by the sound of 4
sudden rush OF wings.
"llullO! what's thal?' halloed Good;
Somebody hit me in the face"
Bats" said |: ION YOU GO
When we had, 50 far rs We cOuId judge.
gone some fifty pac 8, we perceived that
the passage was growi z family light. An
other minute we stood in the most wonder
full place that the eyes of living man ever
lit Oh.
Let the reader picture himSc the hall of
the vaSteSt cathedral he ever stood in, win
dowIrss indeed. tut uimly lighted from
above presumably by shafts connected
with the OUtr air and driven in the roof,
which grChgd away a hundred feet above
our head, and he will get some idea of the
size of the enormous cave in which we
stood with the diff rcICy that this cathe-
dral designed Of Hatur3 WAS lOftiGr and
wider than any built by man. But its stu
pendous ~ize was the Last of the wonders
of the place for running IN rows down its
leugt were q ante pillars of what looked
like iC,', but were, In reality, huge Stalacti-
ties. ii is imp IS bic for Inc 10 convey any
idea Of IN Oy rpUWering beauty and
grandeur Of these p liars of white spar,
some OF wh.'l wert not less than twenty
feet IN diameter 1T the base ana sprung up
III lofty ana YET Echcate DtaHty sheer TO the
distant roof OtHeiS gam were III process
OF formation. On IN rock moor tAere was